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Imagining Human Rights
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Imagining Human Rights

by Susanne Kaul, David Kim
September 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
235 pages
7h 36m
English
De Gruyter
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Sebastian Wogenstein

Poetic Anarchy and Human Rights: Dissensus in Georg Büchner’s Danton’s Death and Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade

In his seminal work Making Sense of Human Rights, James W. Nickel argues that, “human rights, as we know them today, are the rights of the lawyers, not the rights of the philosophers” (Nickel 2007, p. 7). Nickel, a professor of law and philosophy, points to the specificity of the rights found in the declarations, conventions, and other treaties that make up today’s international human rights framework, as opposed to the broad and abstract concepts that dominated the philosophical discourse on human rights in the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover, our pre -sent-day human rights as legal concepts do not depend on the acceptance ...

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ISBN: 9783110376616